Abuse Quotes & Slogans

“Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.” » Samuel Griswold Goodrich Slogansmotto

“So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.” » Pamela Stephenson

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” » Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.” » Voltaire

“Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.” » Danielle Steel

“Lies don’t end relationships, usually the truth does.”

“Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don’t break bones but they often break hearts.” » Rev Run

“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don’t yearn to reach out, but because they’ve tried and found no one who cares.” » Richelle E. Goodrich

“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop” » Mohandas Gandhi

“After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn’t mean possession and company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child.And you learn to build your roads today because tomorrows ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much, so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure. That you really are strong and you really do have worth and you learn and you learn…” » Veronica A. Shoffstall

“Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession”. » Jeffrey Fry

“We are set up to be emotionally dysfunctional by our role models, both parental and societal. We are taught to repress and distort our emotional process. We are trained to be emotionally dishonest when we are children.”

“The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.” » Heather Brooke

“I wanted to tell you all my secrets but you became one of them.”

“Emotional abuse is the silent marriage killer.”

“Abuse changes your life…Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on Abuse!” » Patty Rase Hopson

“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?” » Martin Luther

“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.” » Mary Bertone

“Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.” » Henry Ward Beecher

“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest” » Flora Jessop

“It’s hard to look for the light when you’re lost in darkness.”

“One of the most difficult tasks in life, is removing someone from your heart.”

“Overcoming abuse doesn’t just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.” » Assunta Harris

“You said if I fall you’d be there to catch me, and I believed you…till I hit the ground.”

“Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.” » Alison Goldfrapp

“Verbal abuse is still abuse. It’s abuse in the form of words. Don’t assume that a few hurtful words won’t cost them their life. Words hurt.”

“Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it” » Tacitus

“In health class they explained dysfunctional families… and I lost it… with tears I ran into the hall”

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” » Mark Victor Hansen

“Emotional abuse is the leading reason of suicide victims.” » statistic

“Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves” » Don Miguel Ruiz

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak, sometimes it just means you are strong enough to let go”

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline” » Harriet Beecher Stowe

“When we were 3 or 4 we couldn’t look around us and say, “well, Dad’s a drunk and Mom is real depressed and scared—that is why it feels so awful here. I think I’ll go get my own apartment.” Relationship Abuse

“Just because I don’t show my emotions, doesn’t mean I don’t have any.”